discovery of the truth should be detrimental to the faith.  They believed that the truth was opposed to the faith.  Warning after warning the Church received that the two were one; that man would only accept the truth, whether it came from the lips of the churchman or from the investigations of science.  Grudgingly the Church became tolerant of the seekers after truth—­men who were not greatly concerned in the preservation of the mummy dust of dogma.  But how many thousand persons are there not, to-day, who think that the Church is on one side, and the truth on the other?  The intolerant attitude of the Church, still maintained in these days, when the spirit of science pervades every form of thought, has been productive of probably the largest body that ever existed in the country, of sensible men and women, who never enter a church door.  They want to know whatsoever things are true; they do not want to be dredged with the mummy dust of dogma.”

“But the Bible—­the Bible!”

“It is necessary for me to tell you all that I feel on this subject; all that I have felt for several years past—­ever since I left the divinity school behind me, and went into the world of thinking men and women.  It is necessary to tell these men and women in unmistakable language that our faith aims at a perfect type of manhood—­at the perfection of truth.  It is necessary to tell them that we do not regard, except with abhorrence, such types of men as have for centuries been held up to admiration simply because they have for centuries been the objects of admiration, of imitation, of veneration, on the part of the debased people who gave us the earlier books of the Bible.  The memory of Jacob became the dominant influence among the Hebrew nation; hence the continuous curse that rested upon them, the curse that rests upon the cheat, the defrauder of his own household, his brother, his father, his uncle.  It is necessary to say that the world should know that our religion is founded upon truth, purity, self-sacrifice—­that it abhors the cheat and the sensualist.  It is necessary to proclaim to the world our abhorrence of the cult whose highest development was the Pharisee.  The aim of the religion of Christ is to produce the perfect man, and to root out the Pharisee.  When the Church ceases to connive at falsehood and sensualism; when it openly professes its abhorrence of the religion of the Hebrews; then, and then only, will it become the power in the earth which the exponent of Christianity should become.  Humanity had been crying out for the religion of humanity, that is, Christianity, for centuries, but the Church tells it that true religion is an amalgamation of the loveliness of Christianity and the barbarity of Judaism—­an impossible amalgamation, and one which millions of poor souls have perished in a vain attempt to accomplish.  Humanity wants Christ, and Christ only, and that the Church has hitherto refused to give; hence the millions of thinking men